Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
‘Une invitation au voyage’ Last Monday I took the TGV from Paris to Cannes to attend the annual MIPIM property conference. This grand and familiar train journey was preceded by a...
On France’s National Day, after an extensive tour of France, the energy of the Olympic Flame finally touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of Parisians.
Volunteer in training. This summer, I am about to experience a once-in-a-lifetime event; Olympic volunteering will be a one-off for nearly all the 50,000 recruits, even if a few...
The centre of Paris, like many cities in old Europe, was not designed for the motor car. Napoléon Bonaparte conceived the arcaded Rivoli walkway in 1802, naming it after his...
There is a mythical dimension to the avenue des Champs-Elysées (“The Elysian Fields”) known, proudly, by French people as la plus belle avenue du monde. This August, two Greek...
The clean page optimism of a New Year in France. In the unwritten codes of French social behaviour, the giving and receiving of les voeux is much more meaningful than the cursory...